I’m in Seattle right now, and I’ve gotten a chance (and a good connection) so I can finally email out another update and some pictures. Since the last time I emailed I’ve been to Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, Mt. Rainier, Olympic Nat’l Park, and now Seattle! And probably a couple other places I’ve neglected to mention.
The trip is going well; I’m about half way through now. After I send out this email, I’m going to load up my car and head off into terra incognita, otherwise known as Canada. I’ll be spending a day or two in the North Cascades, and then it’s on up into the Canadian Rockies to visit Banff and Jasper National Parks up there. Everyone I keep running into out here uses the same words to describe those parks… apparently they’re unbelievably beautiful.
Once I get into Canada, I’ll have to pay like a bazillion bucks a minute if I use my cell phone (roaming + long distance). I’d love to hear from you all, though, so if anyone wants to call in the next couple of days (while I’m still in the US), that’d be awesome. If I don’t answer I’m probably either trying to navigate a winding mountain road or out of range, so don’t take it personally…
So now, without further ado, I give you… Pictures!
A couple of shots of Mt. Rainier. Most of my pictures from that park are of the mountain, since it kind of dominates the landscape out there. You can see it from Seattle and Tacoma, it’s pretty impressive. Also pretty hard to convey the real sense of scale in a photo…
I went wading in the Pacific the other day, and there were these tidepools all over the place with anemones and other sea life. It was pretty cool.
The rainforest in Olympic NP is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. The plant growth is just incredible. Moss and lichen all over everything, and the ground is covered in this soft carpet of moss.
Anyway, those are just some randomly selected shots, since I don’t have time to really go through and put together a “best of” set. I’ll try and do that when I get back. I’d love to hear from y’all, but like I said, I may be kind of hard to get ahold of in a couple of days. We’ll see.
Also, as a note, I’ve had some trouble accessing my hotmail account over the last couple of weeks. So if you sent an email and it took me a while to reply, that’s probably why. Also it filled up with spam at one point, so if you sent an email and didn’t get a response, you may want to resend as I may have never received it. You’re probably best off sending me email at my new address, seth@sethrichards.com from here on out.